Monday, November 09, 2009

Spinning, again and again

It seems to me that I've spent more time on spinning than knitting/crocheting these months. I am still knitting something, but it's much behind my schedule. Luckily it's not my plan to make any handknit presents for the Christmas so I can do that very casually. :)

I've finished spinning all the singles of the batt purchased from butterfly girl designs in Glacier Lake. It's made with 70% Superwash Merino, 20% bamboo, 10% firestar, and less than 1% angelina. Because of the firestar and angelina, there are actually quite a lot of glitz inside. I have not yet taken a photo on it but there're really a lot. The batt is soft, and a dream to spin with, but I encountered my bottleneck when I started spinning. The bamboo and merino are of different stable length and it was hard to get these two fibres blend well during spinning. I read on the web and then switched to spinning from the fold, and it worked!

I planned to do a 2-ply on the yarn and pictures will be up by then!!